Truth Quote by Angela Ackerman

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

— Wassily Kandinsky

“The image in cinema is based on the ability to present as an observation one's own perception of an object”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

By close-ups of the things around us, by focusing on hidden details of familiar objects, by exploring commonplace milieus under the ingenious guidance of…

— Walter Benjamin

Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical approach, by…

— W. Eugene Smith

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Interpretation is directly related to a person's frame of mind. Looking at the same image, a person could see two different things depending on…

— Chris Carter

“Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the…

— Abhijit Naskar

In my own work, when I start off writing a scene, I don't know which physical details are going to turn out to be…

— Celeste Ng

Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

When I'm directing films, I mostly try to create an environment on set that mimics what's in my mind as to the tone and…

— Harmony Korine

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

— Arnold Newman

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

— Minor White